Do-the-Boys' Hall

A school where boys were taken in and done for by a Mr.
Squeers, a puffing, ignorant,
over-bearing brute, who starved them and taught them nothing. (Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby.)

It is said that Mr. Squeers is a caricature of Mr. Shaw, a Yorkshire
schoolmaster; but Mr. Shaw was a kind-hearted man, and his boys were
well fed, happy, and not ill-taught. Like Squeers he had only one eye,
and like Squeers he had a daughter. It is said that his school was
ruined by Dickens's caricature.